Have you ever wondered who owns the majority of our meat processing plants in the USA? For many years, out USA OWNED meat processing plants were owned by US stock holders or families. Over the years, these corporations have sold out to interests from outside the USA. In other words, our food is being processed in the USA by people from outside the USA, both physically and monetarily. Don’t you think with all the issues we are having with China that those companies are a danger to our food supply chain? Yep, I believe it.
First the meat packers are bought out by Cargill and who knows who owns Cargill but there are only FIVE meat packers in the USA handling all the beef. Tyson is owned by Cargill and I won’t go into all the other companies but I will say this, JBS is owned by Brazil stock holders. With all the outside interests, wouldn’t you be a little nervous? I am.
Then we bring in Country Of Origin Labeling (COOL) that was shot down by Congress a few years back (Thanks Senator Pat Roberts for nothing). This would have required all meat packaged to have a country of origin label, so consumers could choose where their meat came from. Why? Because the USA is importing beef and exporting it as well under the trade agreements. Meat coming into the USA doesn’t go through the stringent inspection process before coming to the USA. That meas that meat could have been laying on a dirty floor before it was shipped to the USA. Yeah, that is gross but it happens. So, COOL go shot down, food comes in that isn’t inspected closely and it gets into our food chain. GROSS!
Now comes Corona Virus. Smithfield is a pork packing plant and guess who has investments in that company? China. That country also gets chickens, pork, & beef that is slaughtered in the USA, shipped to China for processing, then returned to the USA. Do you really thing this is a good idea? I don’t.
Now suddenly all the meat packing plants are shutting down because of the CoVID-19 virus. Why? Hmmm, could China be behind it all? Possibly.
Do you think our food chain should be supplied by other countries? Do you think that food from China can be safe? Do you really want to risk it after we know baby formula from China had lead in it? The dog treats from China caused thousands of dogs to have seizures and die (My parents had a dog that ended up with seizures from eating Chinese doggie treats). Toys from China have lead on them. Do you really thing we should buy anything from China, just because it is cheap? I don’t.
Farmers in America feed the world. We are quite capable of producing most of the food our country needs (Save goat meat, we don’t have enough goats to feed the ethnic populations.). Our dairy farmers are dumping milk because the processors are screwing the farmers with low prices paid to produce, then jacking the price up in the stores. The meat packers are screwing the beef producers by lowballing fat cattle, then selling steaks for $16/pound. Who has interests in these companies? China or outside country entities. Enough is enough. It is time to buy American and buy from the local producer because the big processors have too many questionable investors and tactics.
Conspiracy? Maybe, maybe not.
Educated Cowpuncher 